What is Cable TV?
Cable TV is delivered to homes using under-street fibre-optic cables. It’s only available in parts of the UK, typically areas of high population. Cable TV is a digital TV services offering more channels than the free-to-view digital TV service Freeview, but less channels that the competing satellite TV service supplied by Sky TV. Until February 2007, the two UK big players in cable TV were NTL and Telewest. The two companies are now one, and the major UK Cable TV firm is “Virgin Media”. To get Cable TV, you need to be in a cable overage area, meaning that a cable firm has run their special fibre optic cable to your street. Assuming you’re in a cable area, you can arrange to get connected to Virgin Media’s cable TV, phone and Internet service. To get connected to Virgin Media, their engineers will need to call and connect their cable service from the street into a special cable TV set-top box. Once connected, you can start to watch a range of cable TV channels and video-on-demand progra
